On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:19:25 -0600, Steve > wrote:

wrote:
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||> I don't know if any of you have been following this.
||> Dallas uses Craown Vic police cars. Several have been rear-ended at high
speeds
||> and the gas tanks exploded, killing the officer. Dallas sues Ford for
"defective
||> design". Ford puts Dallas on "No sale" status (Why should we continue to
sell
||> you vehicles if you think they are unsafe and sue us?).
||>
||> Yesterday Dallas found the solution: They bought 20 Dodge Intrepids.
||>
||> Texas Parts Guy
||
||
||I own an Intrepid (well, Eagle Vision, first-gen Intrepid twin). I love
||Intrepids. But they'll never hold up as copcars- front drives cars never do.
||
||Now if they'd bought 20 Magnums or waited for 20 Chargers, that would be
|| a potentially very different story. Especially if Chrysler goes back
||to its old form and releases a true Police Spec version of the Charger,
||as rumored. The old K-code police spec Mopars were genuinely different
||from the standard production run, not just painted black-and-whiite.
||Tons of extra welds and other goodies, as well as upgraded suspension
||and brake components.

Yep, I still see those occasionally, with the cheese-holed steel wheels. I bet
they don't have production to the point where they can offer a Police-spec
Magnum, but they should make it a prioroity. That would be good advertising
Texas Parts Guy